That's it?

The sudden shift in the situation caused all the armed personnel present to freeze, their eyes filled with disbelief.

They had only seen Li Yèlái, who was surrounded, suddenly disappear from their sight.

The next second, he reappeared behind them, holding a long saber, right in front of Wang De.

How could this bizarre scene not shock them?

But the armed personnel didn't dare to move, because Li Yèlái's long saber was already pressed against Wang De's neck.

A slight lift of his hand would be enough to slit Wang De's throat.

Meanwhile, Detective breathed a sigh of relief. He naturally knew what had happened.

Li Yèlái had used his Psychic Weapon ability to disrupt the vision of everyone present.

For Spirit Ability User, this ability could only disrupt vision for a fraction of a second.

But for ordinary people, it caused a loss of vision of over a second.

This was enough for Li Yèlái to cut straight through the encirclement, draw his saber from the black umbrella, and confront Wang De directly.

This instantly intimidated everyone.

At this moment, Detective was incredibly glad he had invited Li Yèlái.

If he had been alone, he would probably have suffered a disadvantage now.

Given Wang De's assertiveness, if the two of them had persisted, Wang De would likely have ordered them to open fire.

To protect his Family's secret, he was truly willing to kill two Spirit Ability User.

But now, Wang De could only stare at Li Yèlái with a stern expression, remaining silent.

Li Yèlái looked down at Wang De, the living room lights casting his shadow, enveloping Wang De.

Li Yèlái was genuinely angered. He personally had no interest in meddling in other people's family affairs.

But if it involved Spirit Ability User and Forbidden Item, it represented a huge hidden danger.

Once out of control, it could create unimaginable disasters and cause more innocent people to suffer.

Like Doctor Wang, like that girl who was eaten.

This old bastard, for the sake of his so-called Family secret, was obstructing the investigation and even threatening him with a gun.

If things truly reached an irreversible point, how many more 'Doctor Wang' would be affected and harmed?

Fortunately, even though this world had much injustice due to wealth, status, and power.

At least death was fair.

At this moment, even Wang De, with his years of experience as a scavenger, felt a suffocating pressure. His left hand had already slipped inside his pajamas, as if about to pull out a weapon to resist.

But in the end, he did not act. He knew that no matter how fast he was, he couldn't be faster than Li Yèlái's saber.

Just as Li Yèlái had said, "Try saying one more thing?"

Trying would truly mean "shì shì" (testing/trying, which sounds like "death" in Chinese)!

"Calm down! I know you're with the authorities, but pointing a weapon at civilians is a bit too irregular, wouldn't you say?" Wang De's son said nervously, trying to mediate.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman spoke up, "That's right. Who do you think you're threatening? Do you know the consequences of doing this? Can you afford our retaliation? Think about your family."

"Shut up, you idiot!" Wang De growled with a stern face, having already seen the cold glint in Li Yèlái's eyes.

This statement had touched a nerve.

This guy clearly wasn't someone who could be intimidated or threatened by the prestige of the Family. Such threats would only backfire.

Wang De even suspected that his third daughter intended to force him to his death so she could inherit the family fortune.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Wang De looked at the armed personnel and said, "Withdraw."

Then, Wang De slowly leaned back on the sofa and said to Li Yèlái, "It seems you won't rest until you've investigated thoroughly? Why are you meddling in other people's business? You could have gained more benefits by backing down. As a Spirit Ability User, you must have many expenses, right? Why not just take the money and leave? For the sake of some sense of justice?"

It had to be said that Wang De was adaptable, completely abandoning his previous assertiveness. Instead, he spoke calmly with Li Yèlái.

Li Yèlái responded indifferently, "None of your damn business?"

Wang De smiled faintly and then said, "Young man, do you know? Some people steadfastly pursue their sense of justice. I saw many, many such people when I was still a scavenger."

Everyone listened curiously and quietly.

Wang De slowly recounted, "In those days, the wilderness was still very dangerous. Not only did you have to face hordes of beasts, but you also had to be wary of betrayal from your own kind, and you might even encounter strange entities. In such an environment, they were resilient yet fragile, simple yet dangerous.

They pursued ideals they believed were correct. Even if those ideals were ridiculous and childish, they were still engrossed and moved forward with determination.

And what was most valuable was that they were full of rebellious spirit yet easily controlled by emotions. But these people had one thing in common..."

Wang De looked at Li Yèlái. "Do you want to know what it is?"

Li Yèlái did not respond.

Wang De stopped talking.

Seeing Li Yèlái put down his long saber, Wang De withdrew his left hand and slowly stood up, leaning on the sofa.

Then, he picked up a cane and stood on it, saying to the girl in the white dress, "Do you want to know the secret of the Family?"

"I want to know why my parents died," the girl in the white dress replied firmly.

"Just don't regret it. Then follow me, all of you, follow me."

He left the room, leaning on his cane, only to find Li Yèlái following closely behind him.

The crimson long saber was held in one hand, clearly on guard against himself at all times. Guarding against the armed personnel following not far behind.

Wang De said nothing, but continued to move forward.

Even though he was almost ninety years old, his steps were steady, and he soon arrived in a room on the first floor.

The room was ordinary. An old bookshelf, a worn-out sofa, and a coffee table.

While everyone was wondering, Wang De stepped forward and twisted a candlestick in the room.

Then, the bookshelf slowly moved aside, revealing a staircase leading directly underground.

"This..." The other Family members were dumbfounded. They had grown up here since childhood but had never discovered a secret passage in their home.

"Come, this is the secret of our Family," Wang De said, and then spoke to the armed personnel outside the house, "Guard this place, no one is allowed in or out."

After lighting a candle, he led the way into the secret passage.

The others followed suit, filing into the secret passage.

After walking down more than forty steps, they reached the bottom.

It was a very old-fashioned basement, exceptionally spacious.

Wang De turned on the basement light. The light was dim and flickering, clearly in disrepair.

And by the faint light, everyone saw a strange sight.

A blue brick house?

In the basement, there was a single-story Chinese-style blue brick house?

This surprised everyone.

"This is the secret of my Family," Wang De approached the blue brick house and stroked the wall, saying, "The former owner, to hide this secret, specifically built a mansion on top of it to cover it up. Unfortunately, it couldn't escape the disaster fog in the end. Eventually, it became my property. Perhaps this is what you call a forbidden item?"

Li Yèlái and the Detective exchanged glances. The Detective was the first to ask, "What abilities does this brick house have?"

"Exchange," Wang De said faintly, and pushed open half of the wooden door.

Creak

The rusty hinges made a harsh grinding sound.

This allowed everyone to see the layout inside the room. There was only one thing: an altar.

"Exchange what?" Li Yèlái frowned.

"Almost anything. It will try its best to fulfill wishes based on the offerings. Of course, resurrection is not possible," Wang De said. "You just need to place the offering in the room before midnight and close the door. After midnight, you will receive the blessing."

"At the very beginning, I craved wealth, so I sneaked in here and secretly offered an offering. It was a dog I found. Then after midnight, the dog was gone, and a piece of gold appeared on the altar."

"After that, I would sneak in here with offerings every time, again and again. My assets slowly accumulated, and I also figured out the rules."

"Just state your wish to the altar, and offer the sacrifice. Some can be given directly, while others require guidance to a certain place to obtain them."

"My arm was once disabled. After offering a live cow, my disabled arm was restored to its original condition."

"If livestock as offerings can have such an effect, what about humans?"

"To test it, I tricked a drunkard," Wang De said faintly.

This sentence made everyone's scalp tingle.

"You used the drunkard as an offering?" The girl in the white dress widened her eyes in disbelief. She couldn't reconcile the kind grandfather she once knew with someone who would do such a thing.

The Detective and Li Yèlái also frowned. Wang De seemed to have more confidence, actually admitting to sacrificing a living person in front of officials!

"That's right, I sacrificed the drunkard and obtained a map. From the map, I found a chest of gold, and completely established myself in Giant City. But that wasn't enough, far from it. Fortunately, in that era, the disappearance of a few people would go unnoticed. After sacrificing five people at once, I obtained a map and found the blueprints for the Heat Gun. After that, Giant City's laws were perfected, and I stopped making sacrifices," Wang De said with a faint smile. "You can't arrest me."

"Later... something still happened," Li Yèlái asked, "If what you said is true, then your descendants shouldn't have died."

Using a forbidden item requires a price.

And in the previous transactions, those offerings were the price.

In this way, the deaths of the Wang family members were not caused by this price.

There was another reason.

"That's right," Wang De said faintly. "Someone discovered my secret and started threatening me. But I had the altar, so why would I fear threats? The other party then began to target my relatives. I regret it, but I haven't been able to find him. Even when I wished to the altar, I could only find places where he had been."

Li Yèlái and the Detective exchanged glances, then asked, "Can we inspect the altar?"

"Of course," Wang De nodded slightly, stepping aside. He appeared very compliant.

Li Yèlái, holding his saber, stepped forward and examined the blue brick house back and forth before pushing open the other half of the wooden door.

He saw the altar with its ancient markings. This was no benevolent object.

He wondered if Black Shadow had anything to do with this thing, both requiring offerings. However, one used enemies killed by Li Yèlái as offerings, while the other required living flesh and blood. What a difference.

Li Yèlái thought to himself as he stepped into the room.

The moment he stepped across the threshold, disaster struck!

A pair of crimson eyes suddenly opened before him, instantly transforming into an illusionary figure.

It was a <Heavy Armor Knight> clad in grey and white plate armor, with a silver cape!

The crimson eyes flickered within the helmet. He wielded a spear, smashing it down at <Li Yèlái>.

"Damn it, you old bastard!" Even though <Li Yèlái> had been on guard, he couldn't have predicted an enemy would suddenly appear before him.

He could only thrust his blade upwards while leaning back, desperately dodging the enemy's sneak attack.

Clang! The instant the spear and saber collided, <Li Yèlái> felt his grip go numb. His body tilted backward.

This was an extremely dangerous posture, but for a <Spirit Ability User>, it was a stance that allowed them to instantly create distance.

<Li Yèlái> stomped on the air, solidifying his spiritual energy beneath his right foot, allowing him to exert force mid-air.

Whoosh! <Li Yèlái> shot backward out of the <Blue Brick House>, taking consecutive steps in the air. After creating ten meters of distance from the enemy, he flipped himself upright.

However, the moment he got up, the <Lancer Knight>, still far away, vanished into mist.

The next instant, it had crossed over ten meters and appeared directly in front of <Li Yèlái>.

Its red-glowing eyes locked onto the target, and the spear in its hand smashed down!

The speed of the surprise attack made both <Li Yèlái> and <Detective>'s pupils contract.

"Is this <Nether Path>'s <Shadow Step>?"

With no time to think, <Li Yèlái> directly used vision interference.

And retreated again.

This time, the <Lancer Knight>, affected by the vision interference, didn't continue its attack. It stood in place.

Meanwhile, the moment <Li Yèlái> was attacked, <Detective> reacted.

He directly pulled out the large-caliber <Revolver> from his pocket and fired three shots at <Wang De>!

Clearly, <Wang De> was behind the attacks on <Li Yèlái>!

Killing <Wang De> directly was imperative.

However, with the sound of a bell.

The three bullets aimed at <Wang De> stopped in mid-air.

Because another phantom-like heavy armored knight had appeared in front of <Wang De>.

The bullets were blocked by its spiritual energy barrier, unable to advance even an inch.

<Wang De> held a <Silver Bell> in his hand, and looking at the still-alive <Li Yèlái>, he said with regret, "What a shame, just a little bit more."

The sudden turn of events left everyone stunned.

"What's going on?" the girl in the white dress asked in shock.

For some reason, the suddenly appearing knight attacked <Li Yèlái>, and another knight appeared beside her grandfather? What happened?

Weren't they just talking fine?

Why did they suddenly start shooting and fighting again?

"I almost got screwed to death." <Li Yèlái> exhaled slowly, adjusting his breathing. "You old bastard, waiting for me here?"

If <Li Yèlái> hadn't been sufficiently vigilant and retreated decisively, that blow would have pierced him.

"<Shadow Step>, phasing, invisibility. A summoned creature? Is it an ability or a <Forbidden Item> effect?" <Detective> gritted his teeth as he looked at the two knights. "Damn you, so the killer was you all along!"

Previously, during the incident where Old Master Wang was almost killed by the chandelier, <Li Yèlái> and the others had noticed someone severing the chandelier with a single strike in broad daylight.

They had thought it was some awakened <Nether Path> <Spirit Ability User>, but they never expected... it was <Wang De>'s own method?

Standing behind the dual-wielding knight, <Wang De> said with regret, "If you had died just like that, perhaps it would have been a good thing for you all.

The brave official <Spirit Ability User> fought to the death against the murderer, unfortunately sacrificing themselves, but successfully protecting Mr. <Wang De> and his family. This would have been a heroic tale. You would have been hailed as heroes, respected by all."

<Li Yèlái> said coldly, "Ha, you beast who killed your own kin!"

"What does that mean?" the girl in the white dress asked, shocked.

"Isn't it obvious?" <Detective> looked at the ghostly knights and said in a low voice, "For the past ten years, the killer who murdered your relatives... has been him! Whether it was an accident or an incident, a knight with the ability to become invisible and teleport instantly would be the perfect murder weapon!"

The girl in the white dress looked at <Wang De> in astonishment, as if expecting his answer.

The response she received was <Wang De>'s faint sigh, "You talk too much. As expected, I left a flaw when I killed the second son."

"On your birthday every year, a blood relative would die in an accident, yet you lived on year after year," <Detective> narrowed his eyes. "I thought it was revenge, but you were too calm when Old Master Wang was attacked. Now it seems you are a scumbag who survives by devouring the lives of your blood relatives!"

"You are too young to understand the fear of death approaching step by step. When I realized I was dying, growing old, and my relatives and descendants were thinking of fighting over my fortune, cursing me behind my back as an old immortal who wouldn't die,"

<Wang De> paused and continued, "So, I made a wish to the <Altar>, praying for longevity. And these unfilial descendants are the price I had to pay. Isn't it perfect?"

Then, he looked at the middle-aged woman, "Third child, weren't you scared when your uncle died? We had just agreed on how to divide my property after you ran me over with your car. But he was run over by a car the next day!"

The middle-aged woman's legs went weak, and she collapsed to the ground, her face pale as she explained, "No, I didn't! It was Uncle's idea! I was against it! Dad, please believe me! I really didn't!"

Then, <Wang De> looked at the trembling young man, "Your father too. He bribed my private doctor and planned to poison me. He was lucky not to have killed me today."

The young man was a mixture of shock and anger, but dared not speak.

For the past ten years, the one who had killed those Wang family relatives was none other than Wang De himself!

He had devoured his own kin like a monster, surviving to this day! Now, he no longer hid, revealing his terrifying fangs!

"Then... was my father also killed by you?" the girl in the white dress stared blankly at her grandfather.

She found it hard to believe. Her grandfather had always doted on her, fulfilling almost any request she had, aside from investigating the family's secrets.

The outside world believed that Wang De was grooming her as his successor.

And yet, this grandfather was the murderer of her father?

After a moment of silence, Wang De revealed a indifferent smile.

"You... monster!" The girl in the white dress trembled, while Detective shielded her behind him.

Detective growled, "It looks like you don't plan on going down without a fight!"

He immediately called for backup through his communicator. Against scum like this, the agents wouldn't bother with honor. If they could gang up, they would!

However, Detective discovered there was no signal here at all.

This was a highly secret location, naturally equipped to block all signals.

Wang De, however, looked at Li Yélai. "Young man, do you remember what I said? The biggest commonality among you people who pursue a sense of justice is..."

"A predestined early death!"

As the last word fell, the Lancer Knight behind him swung its spear, drawing an ultimate circle.

Then, it instantly turned into mist and disappeared.

The next moment, it appeared directly in front of Li Yélai, its spear already swung down! Powerful and heavy!

The response was a pair of domineering double pupils and a mocking laugh.

"That's it?"

Li Yélai held his saber in one hand, wielding it like Hegemon with a halberd!

Single-Handed Eighteen Thrusts!